This list also includes all the things you’d forgotten you miss.
This is a continuation of the 89 things 1980s S’porean babies remember
Ladybird storybooks, earliest attempt at being literate
Bookworm Club, gave us Young Generation too
Old movie tickets, which cost between $2.50 and $3
Kacang Puteh, in a cone
Pyramid fresh milk, most who have seen it will probably have encountered it in school
Library passes, caused long queues at the library because processing time was painfully slow
Wooden chairs, where your grandmother used to sit
MasterMind, where you’d spill all the little coloured pieces on the floor, which marked the end of the game because you couldn’t be bothered to pick up the pieces
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89 things 1980s S’porean babies will remember
This list will make you cry. If you grew up in that era.
White Rabbit candy, with edible paper wrapping
Khong Guan biscuits from metal tin, in circle or rectangle shapes
Hawflakes, compulsory treat found in all goodie bags in school
Kuti-kuti, a game where players tried to flip plastic coloured animals on top of each other
Hopscotch, where kids got active before Wii ruined them
Five stones, where the kid with the biggest hands usually wins
Goli, or marbles, fascinated kids who wondered how the colours got inside and the stuff of creepy HDB ghost stories where imps are supposedly bouncing them at night
Stamps, if you weren’t a collector, you might as well have admitted to being an outcast
Malaysia Cup, where Singapore fans actually turned up in droves to support the local team when we were actually winning matches. And you actually know who Lim Tong Hai and Michael Vana were
Stop At Two policy, have lesser kids they said. It will be fun they said
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